Look for respiratory disease, with hypertension and pulmonary edema in pigs with fumonisin toxicosis. Porcine pulmonary edema (PPE) is usually acute and fatal. PPE appears to be caused by pulmonary hypertension with transudation of fluids into thorax, which leads to interstitial pulmonary edema and hydrothorax. Fumonisin is a Fusarium spp. mycotoxin associated with moldy corn.
Think of reproductive dysfunction (estrogenism, vulvovaginitis) with zearalenone, the only known mycotoxin with primarily estrogenic effects.
Slaframine toxicosis causes profuse salivation, primarily in horses and occasionally in cattle. Due to the fungus Slafractonia leguminocola (black patch disease, formerly Rhizoctonia leguminocola) on red clover (Trifolium pratense) especially in wet, cool years.
Trichothecenes are a group of related cytotoxic mycotoxins associated with many fungi. Think of vomitoxin (and vomiting) and also of immunosuppression. Refusal to eat contaminated feed is a typical sign, due to taste aversion.
Macrocyclic trichothecene-related diseases have several specific names, including the best known, stachybotryotoxicosis.
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